The Last Generation: A Story of the Future

A narrator is carried by a personified wind into a speculative future where civilized life drifts toward aesthetic decadence and planned disappearance. The account moves through public proclamations, reformist clubs that endorse mutual extermination, political leagues and a personal episode involving an infant, exposing moral ambivalence and social disintegration. Alternating scenes of assemblies and private observation show how art, rhetoric and ideology shape collective choices as a population confronts decline, raising questions of duty, beauty and responsibility. The prose mixes prophetic speculation, satirical observation and lyric description to probe cultural decay and the ethics of self‑erasure.